We’re happy to announce the addition of a new occasional blogger to our ever-growing roster of contributors: Michelangelo Geovanny Landgrave Lara.

Michelangelo is an economics student in California. He holds a BA in Economics from California State University, Northridge and plans to begin his graduate studies in the autumn.

He was born in Morelia, a provincial capital in western Mexico. At the age of two he was brought to the US by his parents along with his younger sister. A libertarian from birth, Michelangelo never understood why he needed anyone’s permission to move across the US-Mexican border. He settled down in Los Angeles and has lived there ever since.

Michelangelo’s first blog post will be published soon, but if you’re eager to read him, check out his writing on immigration for PolicyMic in Autumn 2013.

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We here at Open Borders: The Case are thrilled to announce another addition to our growing team of occasional bloggers: Hansjörg Walther!

Hansjörg Walther is a mathematician by training with a doctorate from the University of Bonn, Germany. After a year at Stanford University, he went on to work in the financial sector and currently manages corporate bond funds for a mutual fund company. In his spare time he runs the blog “Freisinnige Zeitung” which is named after a daily newspaper that was edited by German Classical Liberal Eugen Richter from 1885 until 1904. Hansjörg is interested in historical topics and has written articles for various blogs and small German magazines. He also composes music as “Kapitalistenschweine” (Capitalist Pigs) that can be found on YouTube.

We look forward to hosting Hansjörg’s posts and hope our readers find his work enlightening!

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We here at Open Borders: The Case are happy to introduce a new occasional blogger: Ryan P. Long!

Ryan is a software consultant originally from Utah, a state that has benefited from a large and thriving Mexican immigrant population. There, he eventually earned a B.S. in Economics from Utah State University, under the tutelage of a number of extremely intelligent immigrants from China, India, the Middle East, and several neighboring states. Shortly after graduating, he became an emigrant to Canada and lived there for a duration of about nine years. While there, he met a rather wonderful Bangladeshi immigrant and eventually married her. After a couple of years, they both emigrated to Fort Worth, Texas where he now works for a company staffed with some of the brightest immigrants from India, Latin America, Europe, China, and Russia. His interest in immigration is the natural result of its ubiquity in his life, but his embrace of the open borders paradigm is the result of the many conversations he has had over the years with friends about their pre-immigration lives.

We’d like to welcome Ryan and we look forward to his future posts here!

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We here at Open Borders: The Case are pleased to announce the addition of a new occasional blogger: David Bier!

David is a full-time writer and analyst for the Competitive Enterprise Institute and his writings have appeared in numerous news outlets. He approaches open borders from the perspective that there is a presumption in favor of liberty for migration. Only when there is a direct threat to life, liberty, or property of others can migration be restricted by governments. He is interested in all aspects of immigration, but particularly how immigration restrictions impinge the liberties of natives as well as immigrants.

We look forward to hosting David’s work on this site and hope that our readers find this a valuable contribution to the discussion!

UPDATE: On August 20, 2013, Bier left his job at CEI and joined the staff of the politician Raul Labrador as his sole policy advisor on immigration. Bier will no longer be blogging for Open Borders: The Case.

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We’re happy to announce a new occasional blogger to our roster of contributors, David Bennion.

David is a lawyer who has worked with immigration cases for years. He has directly collaborated with undocumented organizers and activists to try to change US immigration policy. His interests include immigration law and the politics of immigration. David is a strong supporter of open borders and even further of citizenship for immigrants as a way to secure their rights.

We here at Open Borders: The Case look forward to seeing David’s future contributions and the discussion that will hopefully arise from them!

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